# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hannah-cowley
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:50:09.732Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hannah-cowley"
name: "Hannah Cowley"
slug: "hannah-cowley"
description: "Hannah Cowley was an English playwright and poet. Although Cowley's plays and poetry did not enjoy wide popularity after the 19th century, critic Melinda Finberg rates her as \"one of the foremost playwrights of the late eighteenth century\" whose \"skill in writing fluid, sparkling dialogue and creating sprightly, memorable comic characters compares favourably with her better-known contemporaries, Goldsmith and Sheridan.\" Cowley's plays were produced frequently in her lifetime. The major themes of her plays – including her first, The Runaway (1776), and her major success, which is being revived, The Belle's Stratagem (1780) – revolve around marriage and how women strive to overcome the injustices imposed by family life and social custom."
tagline: "English writer, dramatist, poet (1743-1809)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hannah_cowley_c.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1743-03-14"
deathDate: "1809-03-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.78
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.739453333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "هانا كاولي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Cowley"
    title: "Hannah Cowley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Cowley_(writer)"
    title: "Hannah Cowley (writer)"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Cowley"
    title: "Hannah Cowley"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Cowley"
    title: "Hannah Cowley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Cowley"
    title: "Hannah Cowley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Cowley"
    title: "Hannah Cowley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hannah_Cowley_(writer)"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://es.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hannah_Cowley"
    title: "Wikiquote"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3126838"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump